Now coming to the actual instincts. Though I liked the movie in terms of movie making, I will never bother to watch this again for projecting India as 3rd world to the International Audience. I accept the fact that there are places in India as shown in the movie but I bet there are millions of other places makes you drop your jaws. This applies to Indians themselves as many are not aware of abundant sizzling nature in the country and certainly no doubt. If you still not convinced, watch Maniratnam movies and you will be amazed looking most of his songs and coverages where inside India.
I understand this movie requires a backdrop where the protagonist suffered most of his life in search of life but need not be so disgusting… specially scenes where the kid jumps in shit.. and lot more… I feel so devastated seeing such scenes… Again, they all are ok from the Hollywood point of view but after watching this movie any non-indian will be on the intention that ‘I will never go to this country’… May be I would have liked if this movie taken in any other country.. coz, from my opinion there are lot many places in the world where the director can go for more shitty scenes than he adopted in India.
The Direction is good, music was amazing, Cool screen play, catchy story, the film crew did a spectacular job for the pay they got. The end product is mind blowing but not suitable-to-watch for an Indian who likes his Mother land. I am not trying to show up being most patriotic citizen living abroad but I just cant take this as its not exactly the fact. I can, for one time, agree with Amitab bachan for his remarks about this movie.
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Hey sorry, I do not agree fully with you. The movie gives a negative picture of the country,but this is one of the many different angles people see India as a country and every movie need scenes with extreme situations like the 'shit scene' to add drama to the movie.
India has set enough examples to the outside world that represents India as a strong nation.I believe a movie can not harm that impression.
So, just watch it as a nice piece of imaginationa with an awesome direction and music, although the script is not practical at all
and by the way I liked 'Ringa-Ringa' more than 'Jai ho' :-).
I completely agree with you, this movie embrasses Indians very much. Nothing to cheer about for an Indian as far as the story and screenplay is concerned.
Congrats to ARR for the Oscars. I guess Rehman himself would agree, that he has done far better work in other movies than what he has done in this movie.
Here is a statement from one of the Indian news websites "The Government has given itself credit for the "conducive atmosphere" that's contributing to an "achieving India".
(http://ibnlive.in.com/news/advani-hails-rahman-upa-takes-credit-for-slumdogs-success/86165-37.html)
"conducive atmosphere" - Do they mean the slums?
God, save us..!!
Machi.. you missed the point da. One thing I liked in the movie was the whole optimism displayed by various characters even in the adverse conditions they were in. (eg. the way the guy faces the Indian police, the way these guys have fun travelling as vagabonds in trains ).
And it quite resembles the Indian spirit.
this is a jhandu movie. There are people who always want to see India as a poor, weak and conservative nation. They cannot digest the truth of India shining. BBC world, CNN all these channels always show negative things about india.
There are problems everywhere. But We are coming forward and after seeing so many countries i can say with lot of confidence that every indian has a better future in INDIA.
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